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Tropical Storm Cristobal brought heavy rain and high winds to southern Mexico Wednesday, and is forecast to re-enter the Gulf of Mexico within a day and track north toward Texas and the Florida panhandle.

The second tropical storm of the North Atlantic Ocean hurricane season has formed off the coast of South Carolina. NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite provided forecasters with a visible image of Tropical Storm Bertha as it was organizing.

A powerful cyclone slammed ashore Wednesday along the coastline of India and Bangladesh, where more than 2.6 million people fled to shelters in a frantic evacuation made all the more challenging by the coronavirus pandemic.

The Atlantic hurricane season's first named storm formed late Saturday night off the eastern coast of Florida, when its sustained winds reached 40mph.
Named Tropical Storm Arthur, the system should move north-northeast for the next couple of days. Alth

Severe weather has swept across the U.S. South, killing at least 20 people and damaging hundreds of homes from Louisiana into the Appalachian Mountains. Many people spent part of the night early Monday sheltering in basements, closets and bathroom tubs as

After ravaging Vanuatu and Fiji early this week, tropical cyclone Harold lashed Tonga on Thursday local time. Damaging winds, hazardous storm surge and flooding rains were expected in the tropical island chain, which is home to a little more than 100,000

Tornadoes ripped across Tennessee early Tuesday, shredding at least 40 buildings and killing at least 25 people. Authorities described painstaking efforts to find survivors in piles of rubble and wrecked basements as the death toll climbed.

As a group of eastern Ontario mayors heads to Ottawa to plead for action to curb the effects of flooding from Lake Ontario, advocates are calling for major changes and urgent funding for municipalities.

Historic flooding in Mississippi should begin to recede this week, but not before a flash flood warning could bring more rain for thousands of residents.
The Pearl River in Jackson crested on Monday at 36.67 feet -- the third highest crest on record -- l

SYDNEY, N.S. — There has been no snow month like January — at least for 150 years.
Ian Hubbard, an Environment Canada meteorologist, said 179.8 cm of snow was registered at the Sydney airport in January, which is an all-time record.
“Records go back t

A mild winter has kept ice coverage on the Great Lakes well below average this year, according to the Canadian Coast Guard.
Stacy Dufour, the coast guard's ice breaking superintendent for the central and arctic regions said Thursday that, on average, a

Last month was the warmest January ever recorded, according to data released by the European Union's satellite monitoring service.
Global temperatures were 0.05°F (0.03°C) warmer than the previous warmest January in 2016, the Copernicus Climate Change

Swarms of desert locusts are invading parts of East Africa, destroying hundreds of thousands of acres of crops — and the United Nations says weird weather, complicated geopolitics and war are to blame.

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Wildfires burning across Australia’s two most populous states on Tuesday trapped residents of a seaside town in apocalyptic conditions, destroyed many properties and caused at least two fatalities.
About 5 million hectares (12.35 million acres) of land

The hottest day on record in the UK, on 25 July this year, caused the deaths of more than 200 additional people than usual, according to official figures that underline the deadly impact of the climate crisis.

Uncertainties in modeling persist for large parts of the world, suggesting models still limited to the research realm. … It turns out that both GCMs and RCMs [global/regional climate models] appear still limited to provide practical estimates of the world

Climate Central says North American snow cover is on the decline, and it is due in part to winter precipitation falling as rain rather than snow. They say their data comes from Rutgers University.The actual data from Rutgers University shows 50 years of i

“The world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change!” says Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Really? 12 years?
John Stossel recently moderated a debate held by The Heartland Institute. Well, not a debate … because climate alarmists w

The weather is getting colder, but Alberta is going to take that sentiment to a new level this weekend.
Starting on Saturday night, parts of Alberta and the rest of the prairies will become one of the coldest places on the planet, even colder than the

Several snowfall records are in danger of being broken. Parts of the Prairies appear to have skipped a season, jumping straight to winter with what, for some, is an intense snowfall with potentially record-breaking impact.

Hurricane Dorian blazed a trail of destruction from the Bahamas to the Maritimes, but it didn’t just cause turmoil on land, according to a team at Memorial University who say they recorded a 100-foot wave off the southwestern coast of Newfoundland in the

Hurricane Dorian shut down most major resorts in the Bahamas and forced authorities to evacuate much of the northern shore and low-lying islands on Saturday, as the fierce Category 4 storm prepared to unleash torrents of rain and howling winds.

If you think it's been an unusually quiet hurricane season, you're right: The last time we went from July 15 through Aug. 19 with no named storms in the Atlantic was 1982, according to Colorado State University meteorologist Phil Klotzbach.

The hot air that smashed European weather records this week looks set to move towards Greenland and could take the world's second largest ice sheet close to or below the 2012 record low, the United Nations said on Friday.